Kyle Keeter is a Boston-born, Boone-based regional artist whose paintings and drawings reflect his upbringing in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Beginning with his high school art teacher who noted Kyle’s “high standards” and his ASU art professor who admired Kyle’s “highly developed rendering skills” to a professor at Ringling School of Art and Design who encouraged Kyle’s “distinctive style,” Kyle has continued to produce work defined by creativity and attention to detail.

 

 

Kyle was inspired not only in public school and at Ringling and Parsons and ASU but also during travels in Europe as well as New York City and Washington exposing him to the great masters of the Italian Renaissance and French expressionism as well as contemporary artists like Andrew Wyeth.

 

 

Kyle enjoys a wide range of subjects including unique architecture such as the historic Mast General Store and the Moses Cone Estate as well as still life paintings like the RC Cola and Moon Pie and Nehi bottles, and classic antiques such as vintage trucks plus nature scenes like Grandfather Mountain and the Linn Cove Viaduct on the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Kyle does commission work. He produces paintings and drawings of pets, and he is a skillful pen and ink artist.

 

 

Kyle has shared his talent as a teacher at Caldwell Community College, Boone, North Carolina, and at the Foley Center, Blowing Rock, North Carolina.  Currently, Kyle is a full-time artist.